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"Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said Monday that he has no
plans to change the LAPD's stance on immigration enforcement, despite
President-elect Donald Trump's pledge to toughen federal immigration
laws and deport millions of people upon taking office.

For
decades, the LAPD has distanced itself from federal immigration
policies. The LAPD prohibits officers from initiating contact with
someone solely to determine whether he or she is in the country legally,
mandated by a special order
signed by then-chief Daryl Gates in 1979. During Beck's tenure as
chief, the department stopped turning over people arrested for low-level
crimes to federal agents for deportation and moved away from honoring federal requests to detain inmates who might be deportable past their jail terms.

On Monday, Beck said he planned to maintain the long-standing separation.
"I
don't intend on doing anything different," he said. "We are not going
to engage in law enforcement activities solely based on somebody's
immigration status. We are not going to work in conjunction with
Homeland Security on deportation efforts. That is not our job, nor will I
make it our job."

Fear among immigrants and their families has
rippled across the country in the days following Trump's election to the
presidency. Trump made illegal immigration a central issue of his
campaign, vowing to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, deport
people who are in the country illegally and unwind immigration
relief created under President Obama.

In Los Angeles, officials have tried to alleviate some of those concerns
by signaling their support for the city's immigrant residents. At a
meeting Friday at the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los
Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti said the city would question Trump's
decisions on immigration.
Over one million of the estimated 11
million immigrants in the country without legal status live in Los
Angeles County, according to the Migration Policy Institute.

"If
the first day, as president, we see something that is hostile to our
people, hostile to our city, bad for our economy, bad for our security,
we will speak up, speak out, act up and act out," Garcetti said.
The
mayor also said that the LAPD would continue to enforce Special Order
40, the Gates-signed directive that bars officers from contacting
someone solely to determine their immigration status.
"Our law
enforcement officers and LAPD don't go around asking people for their
papers, nor should they," he said. "That's not the role of local law
enforcement."

Capt. Jeff Scroggin, a spokesman for the Los Angeles
County Sheriff's Department, said it is too soon to say how sheriff's
officials would react to any changes required by the Trump
administration. Those changes could be tied to federal funding, he
noted. In the meantime, he said, sheriff's deputies who patrol the
county will continue their longstanding practice of treating all
residents the same, regardless of background.

"We just want people
to come forward so we have a better community. It doesn't matter
whether they're an immigrant or going through the process of
citizenship," Scroggin said. "Whatever it is, we want to hear from them.
We don't want them to not cooperate. It's important to keep the
community safe. We never ask about immigration status."

In the
county jails, the Sheriff's Department recently scaled back its
cooperation with federal immigration agents. Previously, under a program
called 287(g), federal agents were stationed in the jails, and jail
deputies helped them to identify potentially deportable inmates.
Since
September 2015, deputies have still been referring some inmates to U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but only those convicted of
serious crimes, such as burglary, assault, sexual abuse or felony drunk
driving.

Beck said his command staff has also been meeting with community leaders to hear their concerns about immigration enforcement. "This
is the same LAPD you had Monday, a week ago. We have not changed
because of the election on Tuesday. We have the same principles. We have
the same values," he said. "This is not going to change the way that
the Los Angeles Police Department enforces the law."

Times staff writer Dakota Smith contributed to this report

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See ya'll later.....I wonder if the Chief voted for Bernie in the Primary....also good news regarding TPP coming up...